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Luca Marciani

Professor of Gastrointestinal Imaging, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

I graduated in Physics at the University of Genoa in Italy. I then worked in Milan and London before joining the University of Nottingham. I was awarded my PhD in Physics at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, where I worked on a series of multi-disciplinary research contracts. Thanks to a Wellcome Trust VIP Fellowship and a RCUK Academic Fellowship I then moved to the School of Medicine, where I am now Professor in Gastrointestinal Imaging at the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre (NDDC) within the Translational Medical Sciences academic unit.

My personal expertise is in imaging the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). My research focuses on gastrointestinal physiology and pathology using MRI methods in combination with other physiological and behavioural techniques. I have a particular interest in in-body imaging of foods, beverages, dosage forms and formulations, intestinal fluid distribution and the development of medical devices and novel MRI tests for GI motility and transit. I am developing a new programme imaging paediatric gastrointestinal function. I work within a team that has developed a unique cross-disciplinary collaboration between gastroenterologists, surgeons, physiologists, MRI physicists, pharmaceutical scientists, food scientists and industrial collaborators from the food and pharmaceutical industry in the UK and abroad.

I have published 134 research papers and 15 book chapters, I have been principal investigator on academic and commercial research grants worth £4 million (plus £10 million as co-Investigator).

I serve as Deputy Director (Research) of Translational Medical Sciences, Honours Year Co-Lead for Translational Medical Sciences, on the Nottingham NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Gastrointestinal & Liver theme Strategy Board and on the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre Science Committee. I chair the Gastrointestinal MRI Research Group. I was awarded the RinR/Wellcome/RCUK Communicator's Award for my science outreach work with secondary school pupils. I am a member of the NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Funding Committee B.

Teaching Summary

I currently teach a faculty-wide and MRC DTP post-graduate course on Biomedical Imaging in Research [MHSBIR]. I regularly supervise and examine BMedSci students on their 3rd year research project and… read more

Research Summary

I lead the NIHR-funded MAGIC project developing a new MRI medical device to measure gastrointestinal transit in paediatric constipation. I am also interested in using MRI to study the in vivo fluid… read more

Selected Publications

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